Elistar XI
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Posted - 2011.01.09 16:07:00 -
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Expectations are rather high considering that we're about a week from the release of Incursion, so players expect character creator to be almost ready.
In short: it's very nice, a high degree of realism, but the vast majority is old fashion stuff, nothing futuristic and interesting, the old character customizer had much cooler options.
I'll discuss things in the order that I customize the characters.
1- Hair:
-90% of the haircuts look plain stupid, on both male and female of all races. I always end up choosing between 2 or 3 haircuts that are decently acceptable, not a single one is really awesome or great.
The old hair styles were so much better, especially on gallente females.
Facial hair on males is also widely boring and old fashion.
-hair color: all of them are plain brown/blond > black with a few reds and no other fashionable colors.
We're missing multi-layer hair, which already exists since decades so I am sure it's available in the future. (root color is only affecting facial and eye brow)
Can't we have hair styles with the gallente plastic attachments?
2- Body shape:
Muscularity and weight are nice. however all races and bloodlines have the same body structure.
They should have each their distinct body structure, which doesn't need to be as complex as faces. Asian blood lines have very different bodies than caldari and gallente ones.
3- Eyes:
It's nice that there are different contrasts and sizes, some of the colours are nice, but there is no proper green colour, the shades of green have yellow and red in them. we should have jade green and other nice shades of it, in addition to other futuristic colours like purple, pink (for the ladies) and others.
4- Clothes:
-I understand that there is still a lot of work to be done in assets, but then will we be able to redo our portraits (at least the clothes and backgrounds) later when they're more finished?
-Many of the clothes have different colors than in the portraits.
-The clothes are made to look like there is a lot of choice, when in fact there are maybe 3 models of each piece, just different colour or two colours.
I think it's better and more visible if we select the model and choose the color like we do with hair and others. many of them have 2 or 3 main colours, it would be really nice if we can customize those to our liking, then we'd have a much wider variety and customization without much difficulty for you.
5- Where are all the decorations and tattoos? they're extremely important and I wouldn't want to make a final portrait without them (if at all a final one)
6 The 4 photos we take at the end are small, we should be able to see the full login portrait size as well. also it would be nice if the settings of each is saved so that we click on one and it activates it (all settings, background, pose, lights...etc)
- no background lighting
- no big variety of backgrounds, just a big number. they're nice, but we need a variety of ideas of backgrounds.
most of them are a stone wall with something on it. would be nice to have environments as well, rooms, luxury places, spots on a spaceship or station...etc
a few other things:
- Amarr: their feemales all look like grandmas no matter how hard I try to make them young, they end up looking like an overage hooker.
- lipstick, only 9 colors, and a few models. we need a bigger variety of colors and to be able to we customize with 2 color?
- will we be able to change the portrait settings later?
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